Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

‘EJ. L. Harper has renewed his Agitation for aparHpn— --- ■ ■ 7*~"'' ■" ' The Salvation Army, at Crawfordsville, has disbanded. Evansville claims 50,600 population, a gain of 21,340 since 1880. Kendallville has 2,970 population, Ligonier 2,300, Columbus 6,40(1. The first load of new wheat on the Crawfordsville market brought $1 per bushel. A handsome residence has been purchased at Columbus for city hospital purposes. At Buffalo, on the Bth, Ike Weir knocked out James Connors in three rounds, for $1,750. A subterranean water course has been discovered on the Forkner farm, near Anderson. The Farmers’ Alliance of Wells County has refused to place a separate ticket in the field. xhik Hoover, of Huntington county, was kicked in the face Ay a favorite horse and frightfully injured. The Vigo county|Farmers'|Alliance will hold a meeting; on the 19th inst. for the purpose of nominating a county ticket. Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe. The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the well 3 average twenty-five barrels daily. Fort Wayne has been flooded with a spurious silver dollar, which is almost a perfect counterfeit of the standard American dollar of the 1885 mintage. The Farmers’ Alliance has perfected an organization at Greensburg with about twenty-five members. They propose to make themselves felt as an important factor in the ensuing campaign.

The Vincennes Weekly Sun has entered upon its eighty-seventh volume. It was established July 4, 1804, and thirteen years hence it proposes to celebrate a centennial long to be remembered m Indiana. White Caps took August Colin from the side of his sweetheart, on the night of the 6th, at Corydon, and gave him a severe whipping. He is a young man of good reputation, and it is not known why he was flogged. William Boyle, an Allen county convict in the Prison North, has gone violently insane, due to excessive grief. In his wild est delirium he continues to reiterate his innocence of the crime of which he stands charged. Samuel and Martin Cutsinger and others, of Edinburg, have just sold to Eastman & Co., of New York, 470 head of fine beef cattle, to be shipped -direct to England. The cattle made a general average of 1,525 pounds per head.and were sold at 4% cents per pound. H. L. Taylor, Of Evansville, a traveling salesman, despondent over loss of employment, attempted suicide with a [hatchet, but only succeeded in inflicting a blow upon his head which opened his scalp for a few inches and rendered him temporarily unconscious. John S. Sharon, near Covington, who was s’nking a well on the Webeker farm, exploded a charge of dynamite, and upon re-entering the well was overcome by firedamp. He signalled to be drawn up, but befoi-e reaching the top he loosed his hold, fell back and died. The first celery from the ii6w field near Peru was marketed this week, and it is claimed to be superior to the Kalamazoo product. It was grown upon a strip of land which is eight miles long and over one mile in width, every acre of which is specially adapted to the culture of the plant. William Smith, alias “Texas,” of Covington, while sleeping alone in his house, was assaulted by unknown parties, who crushed his skull with an ax handle. Eleven pieces of the skull was removed by the surgeon, who reports he can not survive. Frank Calhoun, a son-in-law, is under suspicion, having made threats of violence.

Early on the morning of the 7th, John Denbo, keeper of the Crawford County Asylum for the Poor, was taken from his bed, by a crowd of thirty masked men, tied to a post, and was given a most unmerciful whipping. He is charged with criminal intimacy with the female pau pers, and with irregular distribution of supplies furnished by the county. George Seals, a desperado, was driven out of Crawford county by the White Caps and settled in Perry. On the Fourth he was seen abusing his wife, and the next day she was found shot, stamped and beaten to death. Sheriff Cass Gardiner, of Perry county, undertook to arrest Seals and was mortally wounded, dying on Saturday. The murderer is still at large. The jury in the United States Court has given Augustine Clark a judgment against the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad Company for *9,000. On Thanksgiving Day, 1888, the husband of the plain, tiff was killed in a wreck on the railroad named, near English, Crawford county. The judgment is one of the largest ever given in the State in a damage suit for loss of life.

The semi annual convocation of the F. M. B. A., at Vincennes, closed on the 9th. It had been In session two days. They decided by almost a strict party vote nbt to put a tiokot in the field in Knqx County. The Republicans of the county generally feel gratified at this action, because the farmers previously captnred the nominating convention, and made a ticket composed largely of farmers. The Alliance and merchants 6f’ Wabash are about to clash. The Alliance wants merchants to sell at a discount of at least 10 per cent, below prices now asked, and that they furnish members with their private cost mark and an invoice of all goods from the jobber. The merchants will not consent to such an arrangement and it is probable that a co-operative store will be organized. The F. M. B. Association of Wells County met a* Bluffton on the 9th to consult over matters of a political nature. The meeting was largely attended, and, although it was with closed doors, enough wAs. learned to know that a resolution was passed favoring placing a F. M. B. A

county ticket in the field independent Of all political parties. There were but two or three who objected to such a movement Consternation has seized the hundred and more saloon keepers of Terre Haute who refused to take out the $250 liquor license provided by the new ordinance. They were successful in procuring a temporary injunction against the city more than three weeks ago, and the case has been pending before Judge Mack. On the Hth the Court ruled, sustaining the validity of the ordinance, and the defendants were given five days to comply with its provisions or close their places of business. The ordinance was contested on technical grounds, and the saloonl/keepers were hopeful of its overthrow. Auditor of State Carr has prepared a statement concerning the financial condition of the State. It shows the sum of $783,000 in the treasury on July 1, in the general fund. From this there was paid $60,000 in salaries, and the balance must be applied to pay an interest account falling due, $137,000. the running expenses of State institutions for six months, $392,000; bal-* ance of specific appropriations, $167,500; money appropriated for improvements in penal and reformatory institutions, $53,000; amount due the State universities, $23,000, making a' grand total of $832,500 and leaving a deficit of SI9;SOOT’~

An astonishing story of miraculous heal ng was reported Tuesday from the Island of Oleron, near La Rochelle, for cure. A young man is said to have become suddenly endowed with a miraculous power to cure all sorts of physical infirmities. He uses neither incantation, hypnotism, nor drugs, but simply places his feet against those of the patient and makes movements with bis hands over the parties afflicted, thereby effecting a complete cure. His popularity is increasing by thefact that he makes no charge for his services, but simply says after the gestures are completed, “Go in peace; you are cured.” Sometimes one visit is not enough, but three never fail to expel the disease. The halt and blind hasten to him in crowds. He exercises his power at certain times only, and nothing will tempt him to break this l’ule.

Details of the whipping of John H. Deubs, superintendent of the Harrison County Asylum for the Poor, show that it was a : horrible affair. Thirty masked men pro-! sented themselves at the institution, and calling Mr. Deubs out, he was seized and dragged to the woods, and seventy-five lashes were administered on his bare back, the flesh from his shoulders to the hips being flayed. Mr. Deubs became unconscious, and his condition remains critical. While the whipping was being administered, a number of White Caps remained on guard at the institution, revolver in hand, to prevent a rescue. The reason as signed for this brutality is the alleged cruej treatment of the inmates by Mr. Deubs, which is denied by the superintendent and his friends, and also by inmates of the asylum. The superintendent belongs to an old and reputable family, and has always stood well with the community. At the time of the outrage he had no suspicion that harm was intended to him. Prior to his election as superintendent there were several competitors, whose bids were equally low, if not less than the one submitted by himself, and a good deal of ill feeling was engendered over the award. It is believed revenge had more to do with the whipping than any desire to avenge fancied wrongs of the inmates.

The State officers and employes are worrying over the fact that they will not be able to draw any salary until as tor Docem ber, although there are more than *600,000 in the Treasury. The Indianapolis News gives the reason for this situation of affairs in the following words: “This is because of a law passed by the Legislature of 1889. Some months prior to that meeting of the Legislature, there was a period of several months in which the various State institutions had to run in debt for maintenance because of the exhaustion of the general fund of the State. In order to prevent a recurrence of this a law was passed making the appropriations for the support of the benevolent, educational, reformatory and penal institutions, for the erection of new buildings and for the payment of interest on the State debt, special funds which must be set apart for their respective uses and must not be drawn upon for any other purposes.” The News adds: “It may be of interest right here to call attention to the fact that the income of the State is not large enough to ever pay off the deficit. The matter is not simply a transient thing that will adjust itself in a few months. The Legislature will have to do something decisive to lift the State out of the chasm of debt into which it is plunging more deeply every month. Here is the situation at present: The total income of the State is *1,400,000 per annum. The expense of the benevolent, educational, reformatory and penal institutions and the interest on the debt aggregate *1,356,000 per annum. Thus, practically, the entire income of the State is tied up in special fund- which can not be drawn upon to pay salaries of hundreds of employes, and other necessary expenses.”